Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:22:37 11/25/04
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On November 25, 2004 at 14:12:46, John Merlino wrote:
>Since SlowChess is the impressive new kid on the block, as usual I thought I
>would play a few matches between The King and The Upstart.
>
>The first match was a 20-game match at G/10, no pondering, between the default
>settings for both engines. Both engines were using their own books, and both
>engines had access to the 5-man de Koning endgame databases if the position
>dwindled down that far.
>
>Chessmaster won 11.5 to 8.5, but there were two games (9 and 16) in which
>SlowChess failed to move after getting out of book, so it lost those games on
>time. Not sure what to do about these games. Replaying them seems fair, but some
>part of me says a program shouldn't get another chance if it has a bug in it.
I'd replay them. SlowChess isn't a commercial program, nor is this an official
event. The idea is to test its strength after all. Just my 2 cents.
Albert
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